Android Contracts in the South East

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Android skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Android over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 149 161
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 +68
Contract jobs citing Android 41 38 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.16% 0.77% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.89% 4.31% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 28
10th Percentile - £170 £166
25th Percentile £160 £279 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year -44.67% +20.00% -39.02%
75th Percentile £255 £522 £438
90th Percentile £603 £625 £483
England median daily rate £400 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £17.13
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +332.43% -
75th Percentile - - £19.38
90th Percentile - - £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £31.88 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.10% +67.76% -12.76%

All Operating Systems
South East

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 595 882 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.90% 17.93% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 582 736
10th Percentile £190 £205 £185
25th Percentile £250 £331 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +11.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £561
90th Percentile £650 £638 £643
England median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 46 67
10th Percentile £15.12 £16.32 £16.10
25th Percentile £16.95 £23.50 £20.61
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.87 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.39% +5.22% +223.53%
75th Percentile £28.00 £70.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £58.75 £71.88 £73.73
England median hourly rate £23.00 £36.17 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.40% -9.59% +70.21%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Android as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Android in the South East

Android
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Android in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Android in the South East

Android
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Android in the South East over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Android in the South East

Android
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Android in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Android in the South East

Android
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +4 21 £358 -2.99% 34
Buckinghamshire +21 16 - - 12
Surrey +11 9 £208 -65.42% 17
Kent - 8 £160 - 5
West Sussex +4 3 £220 - 3
Berkshire -13 3 £358 -2.99% 13
Oxfordshire -7 2 - - 10
Android
England

Android
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (39.02%) IBM Domino
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (14.63%) SaaS
2 6 (14.63%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (4.88%) Google Play
4 1 (2.44%) Azure
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) Firewall
2 16 (39.02%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (14.63%) ATM
3 6 (14.63%) Wireless
4 3 (7.32%) 2G
4 3 (7.32%) 3G
4 3 (7.32%) 4G
4 3 (7.32%) 5G
5 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) MySQL
1 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Android Studio
1 6 (14.63%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (14.63%) Eclipse
1 6 (14.63%) Git
1 6 (14.63%) Xcode
2 1 (2.44%) CMake
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (39.02%) Games
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) EPoS Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 6 (14.63%) IT Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Support
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) UX Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Android Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Principal Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Senior
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) CSS
1 8 (19.51%) React
2 6 (14.63%) Ajax
2 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
2 6 (14.63%) GraphQL
3 3 (7.32%) Material Design
3 3 (7.32%) RESTful
4 2 (4.88%) CSS3
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
4 2 (4.88%) HTML5
4 2 (4.88%) Jest
4 2 (4.88%) Node.js
4 2 (4.88%) React Native
4 2 (4.88%) Redux
5 1 (2.44%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) CNTK
5 1 (2.44%) OpenVINO
5 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Mobile App
2 6 (14.63%) EPoS
3 3 (7.32%) IoT
3 3 (7.32%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.88%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 16 (39.02%) Mac OS
3 10 (24.39%) Apple iOS
4 8 (19.51%) Linux
5 6 (14.63%) Unix
6 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) E-Commerce
2 11 (26.83%) User Experience
3 9 (21.95%) Mobile Application Development
4 6 (14.63%) Break/Fix
4 6 (14.63%) OO
5 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
6 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.32%) Agile
7 3 (7.32%) Android Development
7 3 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (7.32%) Asynchronous Programming
7 3 (7.32%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (7.32%) MVVM
7 3 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (7.32%) UX Design
8 2 (4.88%) Mentoring
8 2 (4.88%) Mobile Development
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.95%) Java
3 7 (17.07%) Python
4 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.63%) Perl
5 3 (7.32%) Kotlin
5 3 (7.32%) Objective-C
5 3 (7.32%) Swift
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.44%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 18 (43.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 17 (41.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 22 (53.66%) Splunk
3 16 (39.02%) Cisco
3 16 (39.02%) Meraki
4 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
5 6 (14.63%) Oracle
6 3 (7.32%) Apple
7 2 (4.88%) Google
8 1 (2.44%) QNX
8 1 (2.44%) Xamarin